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<td valign="top">This guidelines provides some recommendations on the types of visual architecture models you may want to develop.</td>
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    When architecting a system, developing visual models of the architecture can be quite helpful as such models provide an
    excellent high-level picture of the system, its <a class="elementLink" href="./../../../core.tech.common.extend_supp/guidances/concepts/component_CB167D48.html" guid="_0YP18MlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw">Component</a>s and their relationships. Specifically, you may find it useful to develop
    these three Unified Modeling Language (UML) diagrams:
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        <strong>Layer map</strong> (represented as a class diagram using packages) that describes the upper-level layers of
        the architecture
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        <strong>Deployment diagram</strong> (represented by a deployment diagram) that outlines the&nbsp;expected network
        topology
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        <strong>Key Abstractions diagram</strong> (represented by a class diagram) that shows the key
        abstractions/components&nbsp;and important relationships among them
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